[Fedora-packaging] Remove requirement to use macros for paths
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 23:34:10 UTC 2011
On 02/28/2011 12:55 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Not so sure that the consistency argument is so strong that this is the
> case. As long as the macros used by the configure script and the hardcoded
> paths used by the spec file are the same, nothing is broken. If the macros
> change, it's going to be because we want to change the paths that they point
> to for all packages. So we'd have to update any packages that use hardcoded
> directories regardless of whether the hardcoded directories are also used
> with %configure or not.
True, but if we kept the macros, then we could simply do a mass rebuild
instead of needing to edit %files.
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